COMPULSION—

SEEN AS DRUG CURE

R.C.M.P. CHIEF URGES NEW APPROACH

TO SOLVE NARCOTICS PROBLEM

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1432 Lonsdale Phone 9331
North Vancouver, B.C.

WAGNER’S Groceteria

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4193 Lynn Valley
North Vancouver, B.C.

Phone YO 9017

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North Vancouver, B.C.

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179 E. 8th Phone YO 3432
Groceries: Willows 1017

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R.C.M.P. COMMISSIONER L. H.
Nicholson says drug addiction in
Canada will be stamped out only if
addicts are “compulsorily isolated or
quarantined by the government for
rehabilitation.

He told a Senate committee study-
ing traffic in narcotics that the menace
cannot be eradicated by legal pro-
vision of drugs to addicts.

Commissioner Nicholson said that
as long as addicts are left at large
“they provide the market for traf-
fickers and by association encourage
others suffering from similar per-
sonality, character weaknesses or in-
stability to become drug users.”

Impose Load on Society

“They also, as a corollary, impose a
load upon society through their illegal
activities and complete lack of pro-
ductivity,” he said. “I therefore feel
... that the only hope for the possible
rehabilitation of these addicts and for
the eradication of the drug traffic is
that they be compulsorily isolated or
quarantined.”

VOGUE HAIRDRESSING
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3111 Edgemount Phone WI 2012

North Vancouver, B.C.

Upham

Construction Co.
Ltd.

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1839 Lonsdale WI 2311

North Vancouver, B.C.

Commiusstoner L. H. Nicholson

Addicts should be released only
when those qualified to judge them
are convinced there is real hope of
rehabilitation. Those released also
should be subject to continuing care
and supervision.

A study of 2,009 cases showed not
one case in which an addict, follow-
ing his first conviction and sentence,
did not return to jail either for a

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